May 3, 2016 IBM hopes Watson will lead the way in 'Silicon Alley' When Ed Harbour, vice president of the IBM Watson Group, looks out the window of his New York City office, he can stare straight across at Facebook’s East Coast base and see the bright green-painted bars outfitting its walls.
May 3, 2016 Microsoft to axe Internet Explorer We’ve known for months now that Microsoft was working on a new browser currently named Project Spartan for Windows 10, but it always appeared as though the company planned to keep Internet Explorer front and center. But the negative connotations with the name were just too much — Microsoft is finally giving up on IE.
May 3, 2016 Could the NSA turn your hard drive into a cyber spy? Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have unearthed malware that can place spying software in hard drives, fuelling suspicion that the National Security Agency may be behind a new breed of cyber espionage technology.
May 3, 2016 Hacking connected cars: How scared should you be? Does playing Pandora through your dashboard put you at risk of being driven off the highway by malicious hackers? It might, according to work by computer researchers and a survey published this week by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass.
May 3, 2016 Fraud worries force TurboTax to halt state filings The parent company of TurboTax, the country's most popular do-it-yourself tax preparation software, temporarily halted transmission of state e-filing returns for nearly 24 hours over fears of fraudulent filings.
May 3, 2016 Report slams wasteful government IT spending The U.S. government wastes 50 percent or more of the $70 billion to $80 billion that it spends on IT and IT security each year, according to a report released on Thursday by the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM).
May 3, 2016 US Army releases cyber defense code, taps open source knowledge The U.S. Army is harnessing the knowledge of the open source tech community in an attempt to bolster its cyber defenses.
May 3, 2016 A closer look at Microsoft’s HoloLens: Getting things done in a 3D world Windows 10 wasn’t the biggest news Microsoft announced this week. It was Windows Holographic, Microsoft’s project to invent the next computing paradigm.
May 3, 2016 Your data is exposed! Will knowing about it help? Could a new law forcing companies to tell you when your private information has been stolen ultimately help protect you?
May 3, 2016 Futuristic cargo vessel looks to revolutionize shipping Norwegian ship designer Lade AS has unveiled a futuristic new design for cargo vessels, which uses the ships’ hulls as a sail.
